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• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  From my journal the other night– It’s 2 am, and I should be asleep. I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn’t started yet, that blog wasn’t being posted too late. Unfortunately, now that the spring semester has begun, I…

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  The river freezes over, but it isn’t frozen solid. My roommate and I gestured at it through the window of our Uber, wondering aloud if water flowed beneath the sparkling…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  I was at the park near my grandparents’ place today, picking up graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her kids at…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  In cross country, you hear a lot about running through the pain, but at the same time, avoiding injury. I have deep scars on both knees, from times I’d scrape…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  One time in Boston, my roommates and I were studying outside near Harvard, where there was a tire swing on a tree. We laid aside our physics psets and played…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two and a half classes that fell under MIT’s broad category of HASS-A, or arts classes.⁠18 MIT students…

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  December 24th-January 3rd so that our entire team can rest, recharge, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  Last week, non-seniors who want to live on campus in the spring⁠28 like me! submitted their dorm preferences. The actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking…

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to science for…

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  , and Edwin over IAP 24) Oculus stickers from a Facebook talk Danny went

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  21L.004 (Reading Poetry, a CI-H), 24.904 (Language Acquisition), 21G

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Good Morning or Good Night? seven am adventures where people say good morning and good night

  

  struggled with sleep – my sleep cycles aren’t a constant 24-hour cycle, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  showcase, where we saw Katherine kill it! 24) The end of fall semester DT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  to take home for a week before I return to campus in June. [Friday 5/24

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  that with 2.009 (MechE capstone class, ~24 hours/week of sheer panic) I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  at the end. 8 Number of teams the class is divided into. 24.9 The

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: What do those ROTC kids do during summer…? guest post by Karen C. '20

  

  Elisabeth Luce Moore ‘24 Internships in Asia. After that, she’ll be flying

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 23, 2018